On View
Not on viewObject number2009.2
Intaglio Duo H
Artist
Josef Albers
(American (b. Germany), 1888-1976)
Date1958
Mediuminkless intaglio
Dimensionsimage: 5 in. × 13 1/2 in. (12.7 × 34.3 cm)
sheet: 15 × 22 1/2 in. (38.1 × 57.2 cm)
sheet: 15 × 22 1/2 in. (38.1 × 57.2 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Charlotte Collins from the Charles and Charlotte Collins Collection
Exhibition History"A Passion for Collecting: Prints of the 1960s and '70s from the Collins Collection," KIA Galleries 2&5 (Nov. 13, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Charles H. MacNider Museum of Art, Mason City, IA (June 24 - August 20, 2016).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Sardoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA (August 25 - November 1, 2020).
Label TextJosef Albers’ approach to color and composition is often understood as academic and rule-based. Yet, for some viewers, his geometric forms and juxtapositions of color can assume a spiritual dimension when approached with a contemplative attitude.
Though born in Germany, Albers became a defining figure of mid-century American art and the Abstract movement. The Museum of Modern Art organized his first major traveling exhibition in 1964-1967. Albers was a professor at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale’s Department of Design.
